1st Edition
Innerworldly Individualism Charismatic Community and its Institutionalization
By Adam B. Seligman
Copyright 1994
254 Pages
by
Routledge
254 Pages
by
Routledge
254 Pages
by
Routledge
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Inner worldly Individualism looks to colonial history, in particular, seventeenth-century New England, to understand the sources of modern nation building. Seligman analyses how cultural assumptions of collective identity and social authority emerged out of the religious beliefs of the first generation of settlers in New England. He goes on to examine how these assumptions crystallized three... Read more
Contents Preface and AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 Charisma, the Church, and the Reformation2 The Origins of Settlement3 Protest and Collective Boundaries4 The Emergent Tensions of Institutionalization5 The Half Way Covenant and the Jeremiad Sermon6 The Institutionalization of Charisma in Society7 ConclusionBibliographyIndex
Biography
Adam B. Seligman
